Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 882

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Ahmad ibn Salih related to us, saying: ‘Anbasa ibn Khalid related to us, saying: Yunus related to us, from Ibn Shihab, who said: Yahya ibn ‘Urwa ibn al-Zubayr informed me that he heard ‘Urwa ibn al-Zubayr say: ‘A’isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: People asked the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, about soothsayers. He said to them: “They are nothing.” They said: “Messenger of Allah, they sometimes tell of something that comes true.” The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “That is a word of truth that Satan snatches and clucks into the ear of his close companion, like a hen’s clucking; then they mix into it more than a hundred lies.”